Christos Dantis

Christos Dantis Χρήστος Δάντης
Christos Dantis performing in Athens, Greece in 2010.
Background information
Birth name	Christos Vlahakis
Born	(1966-09-26) September 26, 1966 (age 50) Athens, Greece
Origin	Kaisariani, Greece
Genres	Contemporary laikó, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter,Producer
Years active	1986–present
Labels	Ria Records Sakkaris Records BMG Greece Nitro Music Sony Music Greece
Website	http://www.christosdantis.com http://www.christosdantis.gr

Christos Dantis (Greek: Χρήστος Δάντης; born Christos Vlahakis, 26 September 1966), is a Greek multi-instrumentalist singer, songwriter, lyricist, and record producer best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for composing and co-writing the song "My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece.

Christos Dantis started playing music in front of an audience when in his early teens. He sang and played either guitar or bass guitar, while also experimenting with the drums, in various music genre bands such as rock, funk, soul, R&B, metal etc. It was in the 1986-87 period of the Music Stage Taboo in Athens, when during the auditions for new singers to complement the program of main singers Tania Tsanaklidou and Dimitra Galani, composer George Hatzinasios was the "godfather" of his name Dantis. During that period Christos sings in commercial advertising jingles while meeting with many influential producers like Akis Golfidis owner of R.I.A. Productions-Records back then, who produced most of his very first recordings in vinyl.

The first professionally produced song he sang was in 1986 titled "Tell me more" (T. Kallianiotis/T.Siganos) in a compilation named "Straight to the top" consisting of various Greek artists singing English lyrics songs. The compilation was made by R.I.A. Productions and distributed by Sony in 1991. In 1987, he sang in his first 45rpm maxi single, again with R.I.A. Productions named "Christian Dante - Turn On" (C.Dantis/G.Shaggs) from Sakkaris Records (SR 8546). One year later he collaborated with the composer Yannis Karalis and made his first television appearance on the TV show of Lilanda Likiardopoulou "Prova" on Karalis song named "Eida tin morfi sou". Same year and his second LP single is out named "Belly Dance (Y.Karalis/T.Siganos). Performances start to multiply for Christos singing covers of domestic contemporary pop/folk hits and foreign covers of songs sung by James Brown, Terence Trent d'arby etc.